Rajendran is a professor of geodynamics at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur, Bengaluru. A river is a unique feature location in India where life and death merge as one. A glance at the daily activities along the ghats in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganga, encapsulate this: humans use it to sustain life as well as destroy the dead, in the same water. Such intimate man-river interactions are hard to find in this world. As social scientist Sudhir Kakar once said, the Indian body stands less segregated from the environment and is in constant transaction with it, in contrast to a sharply bounded Western body. This is one way of explaining our psychological fixation with rivers. However, despite our civilisational attachment and the culture-specific reverence, we have now ended up dirtying the waters, finding ourselves almost at a point of no return. There is now a growing awareness that India’s rivers are dying; even some of our spiritual ‘gurus’ are distressed by the fact that our rivers are on their ‘deathbeds’.
Rally For Rivers Emphasises On Tree Plantation River Revitalization
Oct 27, 2017 - A river is a unique feature location in India where life and death merge as. With the call, “Everyone who uses water must rally for rivers”. It emphasises the requirement of minimum environmental flow to. It only recommends a silver bullet solution of tree plantation and agro-forestry on the river banks as. The 'Rally for Rivers' programme was flagged off from Coimbatore on September 3. Shivraj Chouhan welcomes 'Rally for Rivers', emphasises on tree plantation, river revitalization - Yahoo TV 首頁. Revitalisation of rivers draft: Good intensions with little reality. Campaign with the call: “Everyone who uses water must rally for rivers”. It emphasises the requirement of minimum environmental flow to sustain flora. It only recommends a silver bullet solution of tree plantation and agro-forestry on the river banks as a. 23 September 2017 is World Rivers Day It strives to increase public awareness of the importance of the waterways as well as environment So let us cleanup rivers/lakes/ponds and their banks and plant a tree this week. – “Rivers are the arteries of our planet; they are lifelines in the truest sense.”.
The latest to join the expanding crowd of river lovers is Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, the founder of the Coimbatore-based Isha Foundation who recently led a countrywide campaign with the call, “Everyone who uses water must rally for rivers”. Jaggi Vasudev was also instrumental in preparing a 760-page plus some recommendations, titled ‘Revitalisation of Rivers in India’, available on their website, with the help of some select professionals and volunteers and which was presented to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 3. It is a document full of good intentions, lots of data data and scholarship – but short on the science and workable recommendations. Nonetheless, their efforts need to be applauded because this author agrees with Carl Sagan, the renowned astrophysicist and science communicator – and also an atheist – on finding common ground with religious people in developing models of sustainable life. In fact, who would disagree with the second Encyclical Laudato Si, written by Pope Francis, on the global ecological crisis? This papal document seeks dialogue with all people and is not meant only for the bishops of the church or the lay faithful, as used to be the case.
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